OUR POLITICS DESK

IN THE WAKE of the Irish General Election, the country’s Labour Party says it will not enter coalition government with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael without having some smaller party, or parties, in it with them.

“They’ll say it’s all about stability, but it’s really a recognition that the smaller members of a coalition always get it in the neck at the next election,” says political pundit Ivor Bighed, whose podcast Knowitall, is said to be the most popular show among Death Row prisoners in the United States. “The Greens got hammered this time. Labour itself has been filleted before. No one wants to be the little guy who takes all the blame when the election promises go down the toilet. So – and this is a long shot – maybe an atom coalition can be created around Sinn Fein and Labour, with so many independents and small parties that the electorate will not be able to blame any of them. Think about it.”